The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds firm to his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.” Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has, he will give for his life. However, reach out with Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face!” (vv. 2-5)

And He said to him, “‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ Upon these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 22: 37-40)

Unbelievers often think that Christians are hypocrites because we preach a moral life but our deeds speak the opposite. Indeed, Christians are hypocrites. I am also a hypocrite if I am judged according to my deeds. Many believe that Christianity is about doing good to others. But the start of the Christian life is understanding how self-centered I am.

We can pretend that we care about others, but we do not. Even in the Garden of Eden, the first humans were not as perfect as theologians and ministers preach. It is not the fruit that made them sinful. They betrayed God before eating the fruit. They believed that they were right and God was wrong.

The serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die! For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate. (Genesis 3: 4-6)

Did God give the first humans a command they could not keep? Theologians and ministers insist that God gave them a command they could keep. But I disagree. Then they start arguing that God did not promote sin. It is a stupid argument. God gave the first humans a command they could not keep so that they would understand about themselves and God. Life is a training ground for us to learn. Adam’s fall was necessary for our learning.

Theologians and ministers say that Adam and Eve kept the law perfectly in the Garden of Eden and had to wait until the probation ended. But where is the mention of the probation period that they talk about in the Bible? It is absurd and stupid to mention this probation period. God never thought of making Adam the head of the church.

In chapters 1 and 2 of the Book of Job, it appears that God is tricked by the devil. But what God did to Job was planned beforehand. God knew what was in Job’s mind and it was revealed as he argued with his three friends.

Then these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. (Job 32:1)

Job was blameless and upright but the words blameless and upright were not the same as righteous. Righteousness requires a person to be one with God. One is considered righteous only when he or she believes in God. Believing in God requires one to be one with God through the Holy Spirit. Did Adam or Eve believe in God? We see it clearly that they did not. So what do we learn from this?

Adam and Eve were blameless and upright but did not have the Holy Spirit to understand and believe in God. They could not rebuke the devil when he tempted them. God’s words did not live in them. Likewise, one has no connection with Jesus Christ, the Word, until the Holy Spirit comes. One may appear to live a blameless and upright life but is unrighteous without faith because the Word does not live in him/her.

I ask those who believe that Adam was righteous and holy and he could receive eternal life by keeping the command for the probation period. Are you saying that God could not fight against the devil? If God planned Adam to be the head of the church and Adam had the Holy Spirit, why could not Adam resist the temptation? See how Jesus resisted temptations. Do you not see the difference?

Christianity is not different from other pagan religions if we focus on a blameless and upright life. By faith, we are considered righteous by God. And faith is a gift from God because it is the work of the Holy Spirit. We are all hypocrites if we are judged by our works.

Sadly, the Protestant churches chose morality over faith starting in the 17th century. And they are no longer a true Christian religion but a pagan religion.

For one will hardly die for a righteous person; though perhaps for the good person someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only this, but we also celebrate in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. (Romans 5:7-11)

yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. (Galatians 2:16)